The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10
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So far as our observation has extended
There is a grand prospect OF a short crop Of
hay iD Lower PENIS Neck.
The farmers Of this neighborhood are
very generally engaged in putting out their
tomato plants. Some Of them have con-
tracted with the packers as largely as
seventeen acres. OF course it will require
that some of the growers Of tomatoes
should grow them extensively in order to
fill the 200-acro contract which, we are in
formed, Bassett 81 Fogg, of Pennsville,
have made with the farmers. The larger
portion, however, that will be raisd in this
neighborhood will go to Salem packers.
Since the city council Of Salem refused
to grant licenses to sell splrituous liquor,
rum shop after rum shop has gone up in
different places just without the city limits,
until now there is a perfect environment of
the town by these nurseries Of hell. OF
course rum will be sold at these places by
permission of the general Government.
The shad fishermen along the Delaware
made a quit Of it for the season last week
and were pretty well satisfied with the sea-
sons work. If they could sell all their
catch to persons who want them for their
use and 60 to their boats after them
and pay them at once for what they get,
they would be better satisfied, perhaps,
for from those who thus buy they exact a
premium of from ) to Is cents per shad.
Or in other words, when they are deliver
ing them at the market boat for Philadel-
phia for 10 cents a piece, they will charge
persons at the river % cents for them.
The lodge of the Knights of Pythias
held a festival in Bassett & Fogg's can
house, which is about finished, on Tues
day evening.
The ladies of the w. c. T. L. ofthis
place feel very happy in the achieve nent
of their victory over the proprietor of the
Pennsville hotel. They are indeed Justly
entitled to the honor of putting a stop to
illegal rum selling, (for that which is legal
is devilish enough, because it was through
their efforts, nc doubt, that a license was
withheld from this house.
The services Of Memorial Day at the
National Cemetery were performed by Ac-
ton Post, of Penasgrove. The address was
delivered by the Rev. Charles Garrison, of
Pedricktown, and for the short space of
time given him for the delivery thereof, we
unhesitatingly pronounce it right down
good. The attendance, compared will
other years, was, we are told. small. That
the interest in these celebrations is dimin-
ishing is a matter Of deep regret to many
who participated in the actual service of
the Union army. For they think they see
that at no very distant time Memorial Day
will not be much 1nors of a day to our peo-
pie, generally, than most other days. If
the observance and proper celebration of
this day will tend to stimulate in the gen.
e~rations that are to come since the end Of
that awful struggle out of which was born
this day, a stronger love of country than
they otherwise would have, then by all
means let the institution be perpetuated
and the day be duly and enthusiastically
observed until time shall end. j.
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